Capital City Tourism: Online Destination Image of Washington, DC

Author(s):  
Wei-Jue Huang ◽  
Byeong Cheol Lee
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-429
Author(s):  
Fang Wang ◽  
Lijun Lu ◽  
Lu Xu ◽  
Bihu Wu ◽  
Ying Wu

Purpose Tourists’ destination image is crucial for visiting intentions. An ancient capital with diverse characteristics is an important component of China’s urban tourism. The purpose of this paper is to address the following questions: what are the differences and commonalities of the perceived destination image of ancient capitals? What makes the difference of the perceived destination image in these cities? Aside from the exterior factors, are there internal factors of cities that influence tourists’ cognition and perception of destination image? Design/methodology/approach The comment text data of Baidu tourism website were used to determine the differences in the destination images of China’s four great ancient capitals: Beijing, Xi’an, Nanjing and Luoyang. ROST content mining and semantic network analysis were for differences and commonalities of the perceived destination image, and correlation analysis was used to explore the internal factors of cities that influence tourists’ cognition and perception of destination image. Findings Though the same as ancient capital, the four ancient capitals’ images are far apart; historical interests are the core of tourism experience in ancient capital city; image perception is from physical carrier, history and culture, and human cognition; tourist’ destination affect of ancient capital is most from its history and culture; protecting identity and maintaining daily life are crucial for ancient city tourism. Originality/value Previous studies on ancient capitals have focused on the invariable identity of ancient capitals’ destination images, and left a gap on determining from where the invariable identity comes in general and how much it influences destination image. This gap was addressed in this study, by analyzing the destination images of four ancient capitals in China as cases. In this way, this study provided reference to the other ancient cities worldwide.


Author(s):  
Christian M. Rogerson ◽  
Jayne M. Rogerson

Capital city tourism is a significant theme for urban tourism scholarship. Existing international research on capital city tourism mainly concentrates on the global North. For the global South as a whole limited research examines capital cities as tourism destinations and for sub-Saharan Africa scholarship is minimal. This study contributes to the small body of writings that interrogate capital city tourism in the global South. Further, it marks a departure from the mainstream research focus on contemporary issues of capital city tourism by adopting an historical perspective on capital city tourism. Using a range of archival and documentary sources the analysis highlights the making of South Africa’s capital city as a tourism destination. Under scrutiny is the historical evolution and changing character of tourism in Pretoria over a period of a half century from 1920 to 1975. It is shown that the distinctiveness of Pretoria’s early tourism products were a reflection of its capital status. Definition of the tourism product base and its promotion were facilitated by the activities undertaken by national government promotion and the local Pretoria Publicity Association. An historical challenge for tourism development was the poor quality of local hotels, which were at a standard below international norms until at least the late 1960s. The difficulties of the accommodation services sector were compounded by the enactment of apartheid legislation from 1948 onwards, which required the existence of hotels as racialized and segregated spaces.


Author(s):  
Joshua Ngacha Weru

Africa including Kenya has continued to suffer negative images due to stereotypes, prejudice, and negative reporting by international media. This has continued to negatively affect the continents' share of the global leisure tourism market despite the rich and unique natural touristic resources. The continents’ MICE tourism, however, has been on the growth path before COVID 19 pandemic. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of perceived destination image by international MICE visitors on their post-visit behaviour. The study was carried out in the Kenyan capital city, Nairobi. The study followed a convenience sampling method with a total sample of 335 respondents. A model on destination image and post-visit behaviour was developed and tested. A blindfolding procedure in PLS showed the model had predictive relevance. Findings indicated that the cognitive image dimension had a positive and significant influence on affective image, overall image, and post-visit behaviour. Affective image positively influences overall image but not post-visit behaviour. Overall destination image had the greatest effect on post-visit behaviour. Destination Marketers in Kenya should pay particular attention to the destination’s cognitive image. The study provides valuable information for policymakers and destination marketers in developing actionable positioning strategies to enhance the destination’s image and competitiveness.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Levickaitė

The article is based on theoretical overview on the subject of festival with its focus on special occasion having some unique aspect which is important to both the organizers and visitors of the festival. Second part of the article represents a case of International Contemporary Dance Festival. City festival is a traditional cultural expression of the creative industries. Creative city more rapidly develops through festival activities – creative cities use their creative potential in various ways: cultural activities, expressions, experiences, involvement of city inhabitants and visitors, presentation of city cultural heritage assets. A case study presented in the article is based on quantitative survey conducted during International Contemporary Dance Festival “New Baltic Dance” which took part in Vilnius 4–9 May 2010. Survey is designed for five key factors: choosing the festival, frequency of festival visits in Vilnius, transportation type visitors have arrived to the festival, channel visitors have found information about the festival, expenses during the festival period (including entrance ticket, overnight if needed, etc.), and each variable correlation between age, gender and education. Survey also includes fact-finding questions as destination festival visitors have arrived from and if festival visitors have used hotel services. While comparing goals of festival organizers and survey results, a conclusion is made that “New Baltic Dance” is a part of Vilnius city creative industries, meeting aims of the capital city and also of other Lithuanian cities and peripheries, attracting university graduates who have high demand for contemporary culture expressions and interest in contemporary dance process. On the other hand, festival visitors almost have no direct demand for better city tourism infrastructure and their economic input to the city development is very low. Santrauka Straipsnyje pristatoma miesto festivalių kaip tradicinės kultūrinės kūrybinių industrijų raiškos koncepcija. Teorinė dalis grindžiama festivalio objekto analize, festivalio kilmės, poveikio, unikalumo ir svarbos bendruomenės nariams, miesto, šalies gyventojams ir svečiams apžvalga. Antroji straipsnio dalis skirta tarptautinio šiuolaikinio šokio festivalio ”Naujasis Baltijos šokis“ atvejo analizei. Kaip manoma, kūrybinis miestas kur kas greičiau plėtojasi per festivalių veiklas – kūrybiniai miestai naudoja savo kūrybinį potencialą įvairiausiais būdais: plėtodamos kultūrines veiklas, ekspresiją, patirtis, įtraukdamos miestelėnus ir miesto svečius, pristatydamos miesto paveldą. Straipsnyje pristatomas atvejis yra kiekybinio tyrimo fragmentas, atliktas tarptautinio šiuolaikinio šokio festivalio ”Naujasis Baltijos šokis“ metu 2010 m. gegužės 4–9 d. Tyrimą grindžia šie pagrindiniai veiksniai: priežastys, lėmusios tiriamojo festivalio pasirinkimą; apsilankymo Vilniuje organizuojamuose festivaliuose dažnis; būdas, kaip žiūrovai pasiekė festivalį; kanalas, per kurį žiūrovai sužinojo apie festivalį; išlaidos, kurias patyrė festivalio žiūrovai (įskaitant bilietus į renginius, nakvynės mokesčius ir kt.). Tirta kiekvieno kintamojo koreliacija su sociodemografiniais rodikliais – amžiumi, lytimi ir išsilavinimu. Į tyrimą taip pat buvo įtraukti klausimai apie miestą, iš kurio atvyko žiūrovai, ir ar buvo pasinaudota viešbučių paslaugomis festivalio metu. Lyginant festivalio ”Naujasis Baltijos šokis“ organizatorių siekius ir tyrimo rezultatus, darytina išvada, kad šis festivalis yra Vilniaus miesto kūrybinių industrijų dalis, jis atitinka sostinės ir šalies periferijos kultūros gyvenimo poreikius, pritraukia aukštą jį išsilavinimą turinčią auditoriją, siekiančią pažinti ir patirti šiuolaikinės kultūros išraiškas, besidominčią šiuolaikinio šokio procesu. Kita vertus, tiriamo festivalio žiūrovai neformuoja poreikio geresnei miesto infrastruktūrai plėtotis ir daro mažą indėlį į miesto ekonomikos augimą.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Pearce
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Author(s):  
Christian M Rogerson ◽  
Jayne M Rogerson

Although African cities are significant tourism destinations scholarship on African tourism is rural biased. This paper centres on one aspect of the neglected urban tourism research agenda of Africa, namely the state of tourism research in Africa’s national capital cities. A review of extant research is conducted on tourism in Africa’s capital cities. It pinpoints an upturn of research over the past decade with a concentration of scholarly contributions on a small group of cities and with many capitals lacking any research on aspects of the local tourism industry. Prominent thematic foci in research on capital cities are tourism and planning related issues and the development and impacts of various forms of niche tourism, most commonly of heritage and culture. Only minimally represented in Africa literature is investigations of the role of ‘capitalness’ in defining and impacting the character of capital city tourism. Arguably, therefore, Africa’s capital cities provide the setting for examining a variety of issues in tourism and hospitality research albeit that ‘capital city tourism’ is scarcely evident in contemporary scholarship about urban Africa.


Author(s):  
Rosaria Mita Amalia

Cultural diversity is one of the nation's wealth that can be a tourist attraction in an area. The city of Bandung as the capital city of West Java Province has the potential and allure of tourism so that it can attract tourists to come. The Bandung City Tourism Culture Office is one of the offices that maximizes their official Instagram account @ disbudpar.bdg as a medium for promoting various tourist attractions and cultural diversity as one of the attractions of Bandung for tourists. The promotional content displayed in the Instagram account feeds represents the cultural and tourism diversity of Bandung city. Various potentials and cultural attractions are displayed in visual images and captivating narratives. The previous studies focuses on the potential value of Instagram for promoting tourism site in Indonesia, especially in Malang and Bali, and describing how Instagram creating brand destination through photography side.This study analyzes the topics presented and the linguistic instruments used as markers of cultural diversity and tourism in these contents. The analysis uses Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (1995) theory regarding text analysis and the research method is descriptive quantitative. Topics that are displayed such as tourist attractions, art attractions, the use of Sundanese language, culinary tours, etc. show the various cultures and arts from the city of Bandung. The results of the analysis show that there are 11 classification of topics regarding cultural diversity and tourism namely  


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